Miscanthus (Miscanthus sp. Family: Poaceae) was hot-water extracted (two h, at 160 °C) at three scales: laboratory (Parr reactor, 300 cm3), intermediate (M/K digester, 4000 cm3), and pilot (65 ft3-digester, 1.841 × 106 cm3). Hot-water extracted misca...
Ferronickel slag, as a major solid waste in the stainless-steel industry, poses a serious threat to the environment due to its large-scale production and low utilization rate. In this study, magnesium oxide in the ferronickel slag was leached out and...
This paper explores optimal consumption and investment strategies for agents facing mortality risk within a complete financial market. Departing from traditional frameworks, we leverage state-dependent utility theory, discounted by the state–pr...
Under the additional assumption of complete regularity, we furnish a simple characterization of all the topologies such that every continuous total preorder is representable by a continuous utility function. In particular, we prove that a completely...
The penetration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an important aspect of UAV games. In recent years, UAV penetration has generally been solved using artificial intelligence methods such as reinforcement learning. However, the high sample demand o...
We investigated the effects of fermenting the plant fraction of a solid complete feed (FPFF) on the growth performance, nutrient utilization, meat quality, antioxidant status, and intestinal microbiota of broiler chickens. The plant-based fraction of...
Agro-industrial residues are low-cost carbon sources (C-sources) for microbial growth and production of value-added bioproducts. Among the agro-industrial residues available, those rich in pectin are generated in high amounts worldwide from the sugar...
In this study, we isolated a novel bacterium, Bacillus megaterium 1259 (BM1259), from chicken manure. Whole-genome sequencing analysis showed that the BM1259 complete genome is composed of a 5,043,095 bp circular chromosome and three circular plasmid...
During hot-dip galvanization, wastes such as bottom dross, zinc ash, spent pre-treatment solutions, and galvanizing flue dust (GFD) are generated. In scientific publications, research devoted to GFD waste recycling is absent, and companies generating...
Hydro-depolymerization is a novel method for converting agricultural waste into eco-friendly and promising products. Due to the complex structure and composition of corn cob (CC), a three-step process was developed, which involved pre-hydro-depolymer...
Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) provide fundamental data for many program analyses, such as malware analysis, vulnerability detection, code similarity analysis, etc. Existing techniques for constructing control flow graphs include static, dynamic, and hyb...
The utilization of construction waste soil to produce foamed concrete together with cement and a foaming agent is a promising method for waste recycling. Completely decomposed granite (CDG), which is widely available in southern China, was selected a...
Background and Objectives: Melanoma is an aggressive cutaneous malignancy with a high recurrence rate even after complete resection. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a promising biomarker for detecting minimal residual disease (MRD), ass...
Background: Traditional tumor markers used in testicular cancer diagnosis, such as alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), present limitations due to variable expression across tumor subtypes...
In kidney transplantation, a biopsy is currently the gold standard for monitoring the transplanted organ. However, this is far from an ideal screening method given its invasive nature and the discomfort it can cause the patient. Large-scale studies i...
Medication adherence represents a complex and multifaceted process. Standardized terminology is essential to enable a reproducible process in various languages. The study’s aim was to translate and adapt the original Ascertaining Barriers for C...
Subway construction changes land use patterns, disrupting the balance between traffic supply and demand and influencing residents’ activity and travel behaviors along the route. Previous studies have often overlooked the multiple attributes of...
Public utilities are rarely registered in land administration systems, and these records have no legal value in those cases where they are registered. Therefore, ownership of public utilities is not recorded in the land administration system, which i...
Remembering software library components and mastering their application programming interfaces (APIs) is a daunting task for programmers, due to the sheer volume of available libraries. API completion tools, which predict subsequent APIs based on cod...
High-efficiency itemset mining has recently emerged as a new problem in itemset mining. An itemset is classified as a high-efficiency itemset if its utility-to-investment ratio meets or exceeds a specified efficiency threshold. The goal is to discove...
Due to the randomness of participants’ movement and the selfishness and dishonesty of individuals in crowdsensing, the quality of the sensing data collected by the server platform is uncertain. Therefore, it is necessary to design a reasonable...
This article summarizes the current construction methods of prefabricated utility tunnels. (1) The proposed cast-in-place utility tunnel project was used as a background for this study. (2) The original cast-in-place structure was divided into compon...
Background: Hospice and palliative care play key roles in facilitating goals-of-care discussions and managing symptoms in end-of-life (EOL) care for cancer patients. In this study, the association between completion of advance care planning (ACP), wh...
Background: To investigate information sources utilized in pharmacists’ assessment of population-based health needs and/or community changes; and the association between information sources utilized and reported completion of continuing profess...
The existing face image completion approaches cannot be utilized to rationally complete damaged face images where their identity information is completely lost due to being obscured by center masks. Hence, in this paper, a reference-guided double-pip...
During the development of horizontal wells in bottom-water reservoirs, the strong heterogeneity of reservoir permeability leads to premature bottom-water breakthroughs at locations with high permeability in the horizontal wellbore, and the water cont...
Depth completion aims to achieve high-quality dense depth prediction from a pair of synchronized sparse depth map and RGB image, and it plays an important role in many intelligent applications, including urban mapping, scene understanding, autonomous...
Too few patients utilize cardiac rehabilitation (CR), despite its benefits. The Cochrane review assessing the effectiveness of interventions to increase CR utilization (enrolment, adherence, and completion) was updated. A search was performed through...
Integrated permeate channel (IPC) flat sheet membranes were examined for use as a reverse membrane bioreactor (rMBR) for lignocellulosic ethanol production. The fermenting organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (T0936), a genetically-modified strain wit...
In this paper, we present the idea of Self Supervised learning on the shape completion and classification of point clouds. Most 3D shape completion pipelines utilize AutoEncoders to extract features from point clouds used in downstream tasks such as...
The point cloud is disordered and unstructured, and it is difficult to extract detailed features. The detailed part of the target shape is difficult to complete in the point cloud completion task. It proposes a point cloud completion network (BCA-Net...
Satellite network resource management and scheduling technology are significant to constructing integrated information networks in heaven and earth. The difficulty in realizing this technology lies in improving resource utilization efficiency while e...
Addition is the key operation in digital systems, and floating-point adder (FPA) is frequently used for real number addition because floating-point representation provides a large dynamic range. Most of the existing FPA designs are synchronous and th...
Social isolation is widespread among older adults, especially those confined to living in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. We completed a systematic review evaluating the effectiveness of 20 interventions used to combat social isolation i...
This study examines the incorporation of causal inference methods into intelligent entities and examines the benefits of utilizing causal reasoning to improve decision-making procedures. This study entails conducting an experimental evaluation within...
Aiming at the task allocation problem of heterogeneous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) swarms, this paper proposes a dynamic extended consensus-based bundle algorithm (DECBBA) based on consistency algorithm. Our algorithm considers the multi-UUV ta...
In this paper, a Next Best View (NBV) approach with a profiling stage and a novel utility function for 3D reconstruction using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is proposed. The proposed approach performs an initial scan in order to build a rough mode...
In this paper, we obtain the analytical solution to a novel partial differential equation of the optimal investment–consumption combination problem under the condition that the random fluctuation of stock return is completely correlated with th...
With the increasing incidence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in the U.S., the highest prevalence of AD being found in Hispanic countries, and the rising Hispanic-American population, educational resources on eczema focused on Spanish-speaking populations...
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This study was designed to simultaneously examine if mothers’ personal healthcare autonomy within the household, and the level of their maternal-healthcare utilization, translates into better preventive (complete immunization) and curative (tre...
In addition to the consumption of hot utilities, there is also a significant cost associated with the consumption of cold utilities when there is a high demand for cooling. A promising solution for cooling is an absorption chiller (AC), which uses he...
In the field of mobile crowdsensing (MCS), a large number of tasks rely on the participation of ordinary mobile device users for data collection and processing. This model has shown great potential for applications in environmental monitoring, traffi...
After the appearance of relation-theoretic contraction principle proved in a metric space equipped with an amorphous binary relation (often termed as relational metric space), various core fixed point results have been proved in the setting of differ...
We study the formation of networks where agents choose how much to invest in each relationship. The benefit that an agent can derive from a network depends on the strength of the direct links between agents. We assume that the strength of the direct...
Due to the numerous objects with regular structures in indoor environments, identifying and modeling the regular objects in scenes aids indoor robots in sensing unknown environments. Typically, point cloud preprocessing can obtain highly complete obj...
Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely used in the field of artificial intelligence, such as in information retrieval, natural language processing, recommendation systems, etc. However, the open nature of KGs often implies that they are incomplete,...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of orthogonal
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Background: Numerous barriers to mental health utilization exist for families of children who present with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. Evidence-based practices that facilitate equitable outcomes across diverse populations are essenti...
In this article, the concept of fuzzy
Recent evaluations of counter-based periodic testing strategies for fault detection in Microprocessor (μP) have shown that only a small set of counters is needed to provide complete coverage of severe faults. Severe faults are defined as faults th...
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